FILE --In this Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013 file photo, Iranians surf the web in an internet cafe at a shopping center, in central Tehran, Iran,. Iranian authorities have blocked many foreign-based virtual private networks, or VPNs, severely restricting access to many websites. The VPNs are illegal in Iran but offered a path for Iranians to freely use the Internet, access banned opposition websites as well as popular sites such as Facebook. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
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FILE --In this Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013 file photo, Iranians surf the web in an internet cafe at a shopping center, in central Tehran, Iran,. Iranian authorities have blocked many foreign-based virtual private networks, or VPNs, severely restricting access to many websites. The VPNs are illegal in Iran but offered a path for Iranians to freely use the Internet, access banned opposition websites as well as popular sites such as Facebook. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
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In this Sunday, April 19, 2009 photo, former Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi, gestures, during a news conference, in Tehran, Iran. Mortazavi, a close ally of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been arrested, two years after a parliamentary probe found him responsible for deaths by torture of at least three jailed anti-government protesters, state media reported. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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In this photo released by the official website of the Iranian Presidency Office, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, looks at the monkey which allegedly rode an Iranian rocket into space, held by an unidentified technician, while director of Iran's space agency Hamid Fazeli, looks on, as Ahmadinejad visits an exhibition of Iran's space technology achievements, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Presidency Office, Arman Teimour)
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FILE-- In this file photo taken on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, makes his way during a ceremony to unveil Iran's newest fighter jet, Qaher-313, or Dominant-313, as an unidentified pilot sits into the aircraft, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Hossein Zohrevand,File)
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CAPTION CORRECTION, REMOVES SECOND SENTENCE AND ADDS NEW INFORMATION THAT THE MONKEY DEPICTED IN THE PHOTO IS NOT THE SAME ONE THE IRANIANS SENT INTO SPACE - In this picture obtained from the Iranian Students News Agency, ISNA, scientists surround a monkey ahead of a space launch in an undisclosed location in Iran. One of two official packages of photos of Iran's famed simian space traveler depicted the wrong monkey, but a primate really did fly into space and return safely to Earth, a senior Iranian space official confirmed Saturday. One set of pictures showed a relatively dark-haired monkey. Another showed a different monkey, the one shown in this photo, strapped in a pod, that had light gray hair and a distinctive red mole over its right eye. State TV pictures seen by AP show the dark-haired monkey before and after the space flight, but a package of still pictures released by authorities showed the above monkey with the mole. (AP Photo/ISNA, Mohammad Agah)
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In this picture taken on Saturday, July 14, 2012, two potential Iranian customers look at fabric bolts in Tehran's old main bazaar, Iran, as two merchants sit at left. While Iran's mainstay oil exports remains the centerpiece of Western sanctions _ intended to wring concessions on Iran’s nuclear program and ease Israeli threats of a military strike _ the Islamic Republic hangs on as OPEC's third-largest exporter as it feeds the hungry energy markets in China, India and across Asia. But less noted _ but potentially more unsettling to Iran's leaders in the coming months _ is the increasing pinch on the workaday economy: The commerce, transactions and trading that provide the paychecks and economic lifelines for millions of people.(AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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In this picture taken on Saturday, July 14, 2012, an Iranian textile merchant works on a crossword puzzle, as he waits for customer in Tehran's old main bazaar, Iran. While Iran's mainstay oil exports remains the centerpiece of Western sanctions _ intended to wring concessions on Iran’s nuclear program and ease Israeli threats of a military strike _ the Islamic Republic hangs on as OPEC's third-largest exporter as it feeds the hungry energy markets in China, India and across Asia. But less noted _ but potentially more unsettling to Iran's leaders in the coming months _ is the increasing pinch on the workaday economy: The commerce, transactions and trading that provide the paychecks and economic lifelines for millions of people. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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In this picture taken on Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012, an Iranian shopkeeper, left, explains about TV sets for his customers, in an electronics market in Tehran, Iran. While Iran's mainstay oil exports remains the centerpiece of Western sanctions _ intended to wring concessions on Iran’s nuclear program and ease Israeli threats of a military strike _ the Islamic Republic hangs on as OPEC's third-largest exporter as it feeds the hungry energy markets in China, India and across Asia. But less noted _ but potentially more unsettling to Iran's leaders in the coming months _ is the increasing pinch on the workaday economy: The commerce, transactions and trading that provide the paychecks and economic lifelines for millions of people. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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In this picture taken on Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012, Iranian shopkeeper Mehran Mirlou, sits next to TV sets as he waits for customer, in an electronics market in Tehran, Iran. While Iran's mainstay oil exports remains the centerpiece of Western sanctions _ intended to wring concessions on Iran’s nuclear program and ease Israeli threats of a military strike _ the Islamic Republic hangs on as OPEC's third-largest exporter as it feeds the hungry energy markets in China, India and across Asia. But less noted _ but potentially more unsettling to Iran's leaders in the coming months _ is the increasing pinch on the workaday economy: The commerce, transactions and trading that provide the paychecks and economic lifelines for millions of people. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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In this picture taken on Saturday, July 14, 2012, two Iranian textile merchants wait for customer in Tehran's old main bazaar, Iran. While Iran's mainstay oil exports remains the centerpiece of Western sanctions _ intended to wring concessions on Iran’s nuclear program and ease Israeli threats of a military strike _ the Islamic Republic hangs on as OPEC's third-largest exporter as it feeds the hungry energy markets in China, India and across Asia. But less noted _ but potentially more unsettling to Iran's leaders in the coming months _ is the increasing pinch on the workaday economy: The commerce, transactions and trading that provide the paychecks and economic lifelines for millions of people. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Report: Iran blocks VPN access to Gmail, Yahoo
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian authorities have blocked many foreign-based virtual private networks, or VPNs, severely restricting access to many websites.
The VPNs are illegal in Iran but offered a path for Iranians to freely use the Internet, access banned opposition websites as well as popular sites such as Facebook.
A report Tuesday by the independent Donya-e Eghtesad daily quotes lawmaker Ramazan Ali Sobhani as saying his parliamentary committee in charge of communications will review the results of the block on VPNs, which went into effect last Wednesday.
Sobhani says the block restricted access to some international email services such as Gmail and Yahoo in some parts of the country.
Since the street unrest that followed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's 2009 re-election, Iran has tightened restrictions on VPN use and occasionally blocked them.
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